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Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
"Dear Mark Zuckerberg - Sincerely, Minister Yuli Edelstein"
This is an authentic letter:
AdarII 17, 5771
March 23, 2011
אסמכתא: הס-2011-4258
To
Mr. Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook Founder and CEO
Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,
During these past few days a Facebook page entitled "Third Palestinian Intifada" has been garnering attention on the web by calling for a third intifada against the State of Israel to begin on May 15th, 2011.
On this Facebook page there are posted many remarks and movie clips which call for the killing of Israelis and Jews and the "liberating" of Jerusalem and of Palestine through acts of violence.
It is important to note that this page's inflammatory calls are supported by over 230,000 "friends" at the time of the writing of this letter.
As Facebook's CEO and founder you are obviously aware of the site's great potential to rally the masses around good causes, and we are all thankful for that. However, such potential comes hand in hand with the ability to cause great harm such as in the case of the wild incitement displayed on the above-mentioned page.
I turn to you with the request that you order the immediate removal of this Facebook page. I write to you not only in my capacity as Israel's Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs who is charged with monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, but as someone who believes in the values of free speech, and knows that there is a difference between freedom of expression and incitement.
I am sure that you too hold fast to these values and would prefer that all of the pages on your site operate according to them.
Sincerely,
MK Yuli Edelstein
Minister of Public Diplomacy
And Diaspora Affairs
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AdarII 17, 5771
March 23, 2011
אסמכתא: הס-2011-4258
To
Mr. Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook Founder and CEO
Dear Mr. Zuckerberg,
During these past few days a Facebook page entitled "Third Palestinian Intifada" has been garnering attention on the web by calling for a third intifada against the State of Israel to begin on May 15th, 2011.
On this Facebook page there are posted many remarks and movie clips which call for the killing of Israelis and Jews and the "liberating" of Jerusalem and of Palestine through acts of violence.
It is important to note that this page's inflammatory calls are supported by over 230,000 "friends" at the time of the writing of this letter.
As Facebook's CEO and founder you are obviously aware of the site's great potential to rally the masses around good causes, and we are all thankful for that. However, such potential comes hand in hand with the ability to cause great harm such as in the case of the wild incitement displayed on the above-mentioned page.
I turn to you with the request that you order the immediate removal of this Facebook page. I write to you not only in my capacity as Israel's Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs who is charged with monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, but as someone who believes in the values of free speech, and knows that there is a difference between freedom of expression and incitement.
I am sure that you too hold fast to these values and would prefer that all of the pages on your site operate according to them.
Sincerely,
MK Yuli Edelstein
Minister of Public Diplomacy
And Diaspora Affairs
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Sunday, January 30, 2011
Jewish [& Google] Wedding Story (Long Time A-Coming)
Haven't posted my Jewish wedding stories in a while so here's today's:-
Rubin and Karp
Anne Merrill Rubin, a manager with Facebook, and Aaron Benjamin Karp, a manager with Google, were married Saturday evening at the River Café in Brooklyn. Rabbi Sheila Goloboy officiated.
...The couple met in Florence, Italy, in January 2005, while studying abroad through New York University.
“He was the only boy in our photography class,” Ms. Rubin said. “I thought he was really cute. He told me he had to leave a little bit early that semester for his brother’s bar mitzvah, and I was like ‘Oh, you’re Jewish?’ We ended up bonding over all things Jewish — it was a little embarrassing and dorky.”
After the semester, they returned to internships in New York and went on their first date to the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village.
"I think we were a little shocked at how well that first date had gone," Ms. Rubin said. “We had been just friends in Italy, and now it seemed we were together in a more romantic context and sparks just started to fly.” Upon graduation, Mr. Karp was hired by Google and moved to Manhattan. Eight months later, Ms. Rubin joined Google, too [and then moved to Facebook].
...In August 2008, they moved in together, into a 550-square-foot studio in Manhattan.
“It was such a small, confined space,” Ms. Rubin said. “If that’s not marriage boot camp, I don’t know what is.”
They have since moved into a much bigger apartment in Brooklyn.
“I’m so excited to have walls and doors for the first time,” Ms. Rubin said.
Mr. Karp noted that “our living room is comically under-furnished with the furniture from our Manhattan apartment.”
But the new place, he added, is complete with the two most important items.
“She and I,” Mr. Karp said. “That’s all that really matters.”
Hey, what about the mezuzah?
Rubin and Karp
Anne Merrill Rubin, a manager with Facebook, and Aaron Benjamin Karp, a manager with Google, were married Saturday evening at the River Café in Brooklyn. Rabbi Sheila Goloboy officiated.
...The couple met in Florence, Italy, in January 2005, while studying abroad through New York University.
“He was the only boy in our photography class,” Ms. Rubin said. “I thought he was really cute. He told me he had to leave a little bit early that semester for his brother’s bar mitzvah, and I was like ‘Oh, you’re Jewish?’ We ended up bonding over all things Jewish — it was a little embarrassing and dorky.”
After the semester, they returned to internships in New York and went on their first date to the Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village.
"I think we were a little shocked at how well that first date had gone," Ms. Rubin said. “We had been just friends in Italy, and now it seemed we were together in a more romantic context and sparks just started to fly.” Upon graduation, Mr. Karp was hired by Google and moved to Manhattan. Eight months later, Ms. Rubin joined Google, too [and then moved to Facebook].
...In August 2008, they moved in together, into a 550-square-foot studio in Manhattan.
“It was such a small, confined space,” Ms. Rubin said. “If that’s not marriage boot camp, I don’t know what is.”
They have since moved into a much bigger apartment in Brooklyn.
“I’m so excited to have walls and doors for the first time,” Ms. Rubin said.
Mr. Karp noted that “our living room is comically under-furnished with the furniture from our Manhattan apartment.”
But the new place, he added, is complete with the two most important items.
“She and I,” Mr. Karp said. “That’s all that really matters.”
Hey, what about the mezuzah?
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